Re: examples of lisp code

On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:04 AM, [email protected] wrote:

>>>>>> "TR" == Thomas Russ <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     TR> On Feb 10, 2006, at 4:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Are there any published examples of how to use the power loom
>>> interface from common-lisp?
>>>
>>> I am getting errors that I find somewhat confusing, but bet that an
>>> example or two would just clear everything up....
>
> [...snip...]
>
>     TR> One other pitfall is that Stella's QUOTE is not the same as
>     TR> the one that the Lisp reader introduces, so anything involving
>     TR> quoted structure will need to be done a bit differently.
>
> OK, am I correct in reading the above as an indirect suggestion to
> avoid the API functions that use lists, in favor of strings?

Yes, that is my recommendation.  It is just easier to sidestep
the whole issue of structure creation by using the string API.
The string interface was mostly driven by the needs of the C++
and Java versions, but I would expect it to be easier to use from
the Lisp version as well.

The list version is best used when creating Stella programs directly.